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Effective Data Visualization for AllFri, 18 Nov 2016 16:26:31 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Comment on The 3 min datavis by Jorge Camoeshttp://www.excelcharts.com/blog/3-min-datavis/#comment-734902
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:26:31 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=14063#comment-734902Marco, thanks for your comment and for your kind words about the book. I already have the video files for several charts and now I’m starting the painful editing process. I’ll add subtitles explaining what is going on, and I’d like to add narration too, if people think there is some added value to it. I want to add a quick context (what it is used for) in the first seconds, but I’m not happy with the current solution.

The plan is to start with a basic chart and show some variations (e.g. line chart with a reference band), so there will be many charts. I’ll have to cheat in some of them to keep them under the three minute mark, but I’m sure if a chart has 12 series people will not want to see me change the color of each of them.

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Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:20:59 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=14063#comment-734901For very simple charts this might be useful, but without audio narration some things might be hard to follow especially if people are using different versions of Excel and can’t quite follow the specific steps you are doing. If you don’t want to do audio, perhaps then add a simple step by step. Ex. Remove legend, Link title to cell value, etc.

I think the main messages I took from the above video are probably the messages you want to focus on overall:

* Excel defaults aren’t very good
* With some basic editing that doesn’t take much time you can significantly improve them

Learning which edits to make of course requires learning some data viz and design principles, but as many have noted those can be learned over time. Examples help.

Can you post the list of graphs/videos you are thinking about making?

PS. I’m loving your book. I’ve read half of it already, jumping around to different topics that spark my interest. I’m very happy and impressed that all examples are in Excel. This week I studied your bullet chart how-to that you posted online. Very useful. Thanks for generously sharing. Obrigado.

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Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:37:58 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13705#comment-734868thnx! I love it!
I am surely going to use this king of Excel charts in my job 😀
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Sun, 07 Aug 2016 18:03:54 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13758#comment-734782Oooh, dataviz drama
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Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:31:24 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13416#comment-734757Got it, thanks!
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Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:29:37 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13416#comment-734754Hi Iris

Your free gift was sent by Amazon on July 20. I just resent it. Please check your spam folder. Contact me if you can’t find the message.

I signed up to your dashboard course offering but I can’t find the link to the kindle version of your book. Looking forward to reading it.

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Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:58:52 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13455#comment-734737I’ve been massively disappointed in Tableau, to the point that I don’t understand the hype about it–at all.

What you’ve been able to do in Excel reflects much of what I’ve been doing, albeit you’re way more advanced! Tableau doesn’t allow one to shape the data easily, and the pre-built visualizations are only “okay” by default, and manipulating them isn’t all that intuitive. For instance, the spacing on their cluster bar graphs is obnoxious, and I couldn’t figure out how to adjust it. It takes 2-3 clicks to do so in Excel.

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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:44:30 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13705#comment-734715Thanks Leonid. It’s on my list!
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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:29:44 +0000http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=13705#comment-734713Hi Jorge,

I’d really like you to write about the horizon chart from the book (on page 300) that uses both positive and negative values.